Researchers at the IDB argue that aid should be geared more to helping government refinance public debt than to providing further stimulus.
But Nancy Birdsall, a former senior official at both the IDB and the World Bank, thinks a more fundamental reorientation is needed.
IDB, wants this year to launch an electronic bond-broking system in Europe.
These businesses usually do not develop beyond the micro stage and are not positioned to scale globally, according to an IDB report.
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank are finalising their capital-increase plans ahead of their annual meetings in March and April respectively.
IDB's research shows that improving the extent and quality of education would do more to increase growth and equalise income distribution than any other measure.
Santiago Levy, his counterpart at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), thinks that governments need to start reconfiguring spending to protect the social gains of the past five years.
The World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have made significant strides in developing an understanding of violence more broadly and its costs.
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In the past few years, the World Bank, the IDB and the IMF have had little work to do in Latin America because governments could raise money in the capital markets.
IDB, last year launched an electronic exchange for Treasuries.
New non-contributory pensions and social programmes, introduced with the best of intentions, have had the unintended consequence of dissuading workers from moving into the formal economy where they would have to join contributory schemes, as Mr Levy of the IDB points out.
In the context of the International Year of Youth, the UNESCO Section for Youth, Sport and Physical Education, is collaborating with EVAC on the organization of this event, along with the Ibero-american General Secretariat (SEGIB), OECD, the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) and other organisations.
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